Sponsored by SOM’s Arquitectos, Asian Alliance, NOMA, Pride, and Women’s Initiative groups, this week-long program offers an immersive professional experience, mentorship, and guidance to students of all backgrounds. The program is open to applicants who are planning careers in architecture, engineering, urban planning, graphic design, or interior design, and who share a passion for advancing … Continued
On October 2, Joo Cho, SOM Associate Principal and senior urban designer, will co-lead a session at the APA California Conference titled, “Suburban Reinvention: Imagining the 15-Minute City in California.” During the session, Cho and John Beutler, an Air Pollution Specialist for the California Air Resources Board, will discuss a contextually sensitive model for development, … Continued
Join ULI San Francisco on Oct 5, 2022 for an exclusive, hard hat tour of the nation’s first net zero energy and mass timber civic building, County Office Building 3 (COB3), now being constructed by the County of San Mateo’s Project Development Unit. With its structural design that uses cross-laminated timber to reduce embodied carbon, … Continued
Principals Frank Mahan and Kim Van Holsbeke will participate as tour guides in Fast Company’s Innovation Festival of Lever House and Manhattan West in New York City. Both tours will be hosted by Brookfield Properties. On Tuesday, September 20, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, Mahan and Ric Clark, Cofounder and Managing Partner of WatermanCLARK, … Continued
Selected by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), the International High-Rise Award 2022/23 has nominated 34 outstanding projects from 13 different countries to compete for this year’s edition, including the SOM-designed Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank Headquarters. Distinguishable by its multi-functional external diagrid, the “breathing building” has set a new standard for healthy office buildings internationally. The International … Continued
We are honored to announce that six SOM projects have been selected as winners in this year’s CREDAWARDs among more than 1300 projects submitted by nearly 400 organizations from 15 countries and regions. Shanghai Sinar Mas Center, Shanghai JW Marriott Marquis Hotel, Shen Ye Upperhills, and Moynihan Train Hall took home gold awards, while Foshan … Continued
AIA Illinois has awarded the Campus Instructional Facility at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign the Capitol Award, its highest honor. “A significant model for high performance design as the Urbana campus moves towards a zero-carbon campus,” the new center for flexible learning anchored by the Grainger College of Engineering was also awarded for Excellence in … Continued